The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans : and subsequently of the fyrst evercyon of the auncient and famouse cytye of Troye under Lamedon the king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same under Pryam / wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn Lydgate moncke of Burye.

Signatures: 2 p. l., unsigned; B-Z⁶, Aa-Cc⁶, Dd-Ef⁴.
Collation: title (verso blank); To the reader, signed Robert Braham, 1 leaf; The prologue of the Translatour, Bi-ii; text, Biii-[Efiii] recto; The table [Efiii], verso, and [Efiv], recto (verso blank)
Errors in signatures: Nii, Tii, Ccii, and Cciii, printed Niii, Tiii, Cii, Biii.
Imprint taken from colophon.
Title within elaborate woodcut border (McKerrow-Ferguson, 75), giving the genealogy of Henry VIII.
"... a very much amplified version ... of the prose Latin 'Historia destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne (about 1287) ... in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman deTroie' of Benoœt de Sainte More (about 1160)"--Lydgate, J. Lydgate's Troy book. Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix.
Second edition.